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Technology Stocks : MRV Communications (MRVC) opinions?
MRVC 9.975-0.1%Aug 15 5:00 PM EST
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To: Regis McConnell who wrote (14570)7/22/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: Sector Investor  Read Replies (1) of 42804
 
MRVC making a nice comeback - now at $13 13/16.

Regis, I don't know the answer about the Extreme Software, and I
didn't have a column for them in my spreadsheet either.

I found a datasheet on Extreme's Core switch, their Black Diamond
6800, so I added a column for them. Here is the comparison so far:

Feature/Option Linux Aranea Extreme
Blk Diamond
Chassis width ? 19" 18"
Slots Provided 18 23 10
Fully Redundant ? Yes Yes
Hot Swap HW Yes Yes
Memory 1GB ?
Route Tbl Ent 256K N/A
IP Switching Yes Yes Yes
ATM Switching Future Yes No
PacketOverSONET Future Yes No
Wavelength Rout No
Routing+Switch Yes Yes Some
SONET Connect Future Yes No
ATM Connect Future Yes No
DWDM Connect Future Yes No
OC-12 Ports 64 128 None
OC-48 Ports Future 32 None
OC-192 Ports None
10/100 Ports 128 None 256
GE Ports 32 128 32
Backplane GBps 40GB 128GB 64GB
Available GBps 40GB 128GB 64GB
Throughput Mpps 26 200 48
Non Blocking Yes Yes Yes
Max Backplane 160GB 4TB 64GB
Max Avail GBps 160GB 4TB 64GB
Max Thput pps 104M 3.2B 48
Max OC-12 Ports 256 2048 None
Max OC-48 Ports Future 512 None
Max OC-192 Port None
Max 10/100 Port 512 None 256
Max GE Ports 128 2048 32
Max Trunking ? OC-768 N/A
Expand (Boxes)? 4 16 No
Distance between
serving nodes (KM)

Feature/Option Linux Aranea Extreme
Pricing
Base Price 1.5M?
Full Cfg Price 300,000 1.9M?
OC-12 Card N/A
OC-48 Card N/A
OC-12 Card N/A
OC-3 Card N/A
Protocols
BGP-4 = Yes Yes No
IS-IS = ? ?
OSPF = Yes Yes Yes
Shipping? 3Q99 4Q99
Trial Partner
Stakeholder(s) MRVC

Open System SW Yes ? No









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